AdamDob

Thanks everyone for your comments and taking the time to offer input and advice. There is some content that we have already thought about / addressed, some has been missed in the business of life. The ideas about mirrored returns are really good, hedge trimming, moving the blinds, all really good for us to consider. We have tried enhanced electric light and daylight bulbs, but they haven’t worked so well. This has been a really useful exercise , for sure . Thanks Adam

Hello, I’m wondering / hoping someone might be able to help. I have a pretty much blind child, she has some residual light / dark sensitivity but no useful sight. A few years ago we had some extra windows put into our living room to add extra natural light to one end as it was very dark, and she really did not like being in there. Since then, she’s been much much better and can navigate around , in and out, and happy using the whole space. I might add it’s quite a long room at about 8 metres, and the end of the room has 4meter wide glass doors. Even with those , the far end is very dark and much improved with the extra windows. Our neighbours want to build a two storey extension that will come pretty much to the boundary. I’ve found some loose ‘regulations’ that seem to be more like talking points around the 25degree upward angle and 45 degree sideways angle, which don’t seem reason to refuse an application even this I think would fail on both counts. I can’t find anything that links these to a visually impaired / blind persons use of the space. I also can’t prove the benefit of these additional windows to our daughters ability to navigate, and neither can we realistically prove any material implication of the proposed extension. I mean how can we know, for sure, until it’s actually built ? We have discussed and they are pretty set on their plans, but accept the plans may be blocked if 'a professional determines it's not appropriate' or something like that. Does anyone have any ideas / precedent / regulations that might be helpful ?? Thanks in advance , Adam